Spatial Concept Perspectives

We have gathered ~300 excerpts from published works about fundamental spatial concept terms. These have been cross-referenced with the concept lexicon appearing on the left. Those terms were drawn from the U.S.National Science Education Standards (NSES 1996) for topic areas B - Physical Science, C - Life Science, D - Earth and Space Science, as well as from the 1994 U.S. Geography Teaching Standards for grades 9-12. Those standards can be browsed here.

spatial concept terms

disciplinary perspectives on "access"

access

Activities are assumed to locate according the (the) relative cost(s). Measurements of access (to open space, to services, to jobs, to markets, etc.) appear frequently in reports. An entire branch of engineering is concerned with the analysis and manipulation of access...(p 187) Access may be classified according to the features to which access is given and to whom it is afforded (p 188). There are numerous ways of measuring the components of access (p 200)

Design (urban, architecture)
Architecture

Lynch (1984)

Good City Form